What is the significance of the temple fair?

1. Temple fair culture is a part of Chinese popular culture. It is an extremely complex, ancient and fresh social and cultural phenomenon. It is both religious and secular, which fully reflects the ideology, values, behavior and psychological status of farmers formed for a long time. It has continued, passed down and developed from generation to generation, enduring for a long time and being repeatedly banned.

2. The cultural connotation of the temple fair embodies primitive beliefs, folk beliefs and religious beliefs. The essence is to pray for life and health. The most fundamental value orientation is "advocating filial piety and promoting goodness, eliminating disasters and avoiding disasters."

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Temple Fair Features:

Folk temple fairs have their own core characteristics, namely, department store transactions in economy and technology; As far as social organizations are concerned, it is "society" or "society"; In the formation of consciousness, it is ceremony and entertainment. This is the economic foundation and folk custom that China Temple Fair can inherit for a long time.

Temple fairs turn temple fairs into local festivals and religious festivals into secular festivals. Therefore, those local unique prayer activities, non-religious entertainment and rest activities, and market activities can all be naturally integrated into the temple fair.

Therefore, the temple fair is not so much a religious activity as a local festival, which can more accurately reflect the essential attributes of the temple fair. Therefore, accurately speaking, this multi-connotation temple fair can be called a festival temple fair.

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